So I was actually adding some pictures of our trip to this blog and the power went out. We made it through our first tornado (and hopefully last) while at my moms in Kentucky. It started raining really hard and the thunder was the loudest I had ever heard! The lightning made it look as if it were daylight. I thought...Wow what a cool storm. Then the wind picked up and shook the windows. I was freaking out at this point I had no clue what was going on but one thing was for sure....I had never seen anything like this! We opened some windows to prevent shattering. We loaded all the kids in one room and waited it out. There was no way we could sleep. My sister Amanda ran with a neighbor to get all the horses in the barn and to be sure they were safe. After an hour it started to let down. The rain continued for the rest of the night but when we woke up...this is what we found.....
5 years ago